Watching Films While Face-Blind
The New Yorker Interview Kate Berlant Has Nothing to Confess The comedian, whose one-woman show is back until mid-February, says, of performing onstage, “I...
The Right Not to Be Fun at Work
I have a friend who works for a company that requires her to share a hotel room with a colleague when she travels on...
The Self-Taught Artist Whose Work Tells the History of Modern Korea
It’s rare these days to have an unvarnished, unexpected encounter with a work of art. So much of what we see tends to be...
Keeping George Santos Honest
The Political Scene Podcast David Remnick on the January 6th Committee’s Final Report The editor of The New Yorker discusses the findings of the House...
Bridging the Generation Gap at the Oscars
On April 14, 1969, Gregory Peck strode across a deserted hall of Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion like a weary cowboy crossing a prairie....
How the Oscars Got Groovy
On April 14, 1969, Gregory Peck strode across a deserted hall of Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion like a weary cowboy crossing a prairie....
Congress Goes to the Movies
The Political Scene Podcast What Does “Woke” Mean, and How Did the Term Become So Powerful? For many on the right, the problems America...
A Graphic Novel Rediscovers Harlem’s Glamorous Female Mob Boss
In “Queenie: Godmother of Harlem,” the forthcoming graphic novel co-authored by the writer Aurélie Lévy and the artist Elizabeth Colomba, a vivid but forgotten...
The Warm Glow of the Blog-Rock Era
On the band Voxtrot’s recent reunion tour, the experience of the audience members was shaped, more than usual, by age. Because the band hasn’t...